[May 23, 2012] Adobe Systems Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,185,741) developed by Sunil C. Agrawal, Milpitas, Calif., Jagriti Uppal, Santa Clara, Calif., and Joseph Steele, Danville, Calif., for "converting transport level transactional security into a persistent document signature." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a transport level transactional security may be converted into a persistent document signature. In one embodiment, a digital signature of an electronic mail message may be saved in a file attached to the electronic mail message. The file with the added digital signature may be saved, transmitted, received, and/or otherwise utilized independent of the original electronic mail message. A receiving node may verify the identity of an originating node based at least in part on the digital signature contained in the file. In alternative embodiment, the signature for the file may be generated at least in part on a message to be transmitted according to a secure transmission and/or file download protocol from a server to a client." The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2006 (11/344,293). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,185,741&OS=8,185,741&RS=8,185,741 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. KS0523AK0523-741000 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]